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Example sentences for "funnelled"

Lexicographically close words:
funked; funking; funky; funnel; funneled; funnels; funnier; funniest; funnily; funny
  1. The four-funnelled cruiser had meanwhile turned on the Fearless, but the Germans drew off and retreated into the haze.

  2. Once more I funnelled my hands and answered them.

  3. So saying, I funnelled my mouth with my hands and shouted in the direction whence the voice had proceeded a few minutes before.

  4. At this moment the four-funnelled Stein loomed out of the fog.

  5. The great, three-funnelled cruisers were a noble sight as they steamed along so steadily.

  6. Sunset on the following evening found us off Falmouth, where we sighted five old two-funnelled cruisers.

  7. Three old four-funnelled cruisers, painted black with yellow upper works in the fashion of war-ships towards the close of the Victorian Era, contrasted oddly with the sombre grey outline of the more modern ships preparing for action.

  8. Far out, a three-funnelled Atlantic transport with turtle bow and stern waddled in from the deep sea.

  9. Try and find out whether or not there was a four-funnelled Russian destroyer anywhere in the neighbourhood of Trelitz on the night of the 6th.

  10. The boat stopped under the shadow of the long, low-lying black hull of a four-funnelled destroyer.

  11. At Hong Kong the red-funnelled boat will connect with a P.

  12. This train with its close connections on the Western lines will reach San Francisco just in time to catch there a big, red-funnelled steamship about to depart for Yokohama and Hong Kong.

  13. It was an awful moment; but one of the most magnificent spectacles of the battle was the sight of the great three-funnelled Tiger steaming at full speed through the pall a few moments after her unfortunate sister met her fate.

  14. The third was a two-masted, three-funnelled ship; while the fourth was of distinctly ancient appearance, being of the period when sails were as much used as steam.

  15. As we rapidly neared the enemy I made them out to be two destroyers, evidently escorting the third craft, which was a single-funnelled steamer of apparently about eighteen hundred tons.

  16. The leading ship was a big lump of a four-funnelled cruiser, the funnels coloured white, with black tops, and she carried three masts.

  17. She was a large three-funnelled thing, her centre funnel shot away and "lights were flickering under her foc'sle as if she was on fire forward.

  18. Its slanting rays silhouetted the outlines of a large four-funnelled cruiser, now less than a couple of miles astern.

  19. Bringing their binoculars to bear upon the smudge on the horizon the three Subs made the discovery that there was a two-masted, three-funnelled vessel lying apparently hove-to.

  20. He walked on, past the wharf where the red-funnelled Great Western boats lay, and came to a halt opposite a large 2,000 ton steam yacht.

  21. Enid followed the direction of his pointing finger, and in the fast-fading twilight saw the great four-funnelled monster steaming slowly about two miles out at sea.

  22. Both the destroyers sunk were four-funnelled vessels of the fastest and latest German type; two others had been crippled; and over a hundred men and officers taken prisoners.

  23. Along the Asiatic coast, opposite the island of Tenedos, was steaming slowly a huge six-funnelled battleship of the French, its guns darting tongues of flame, three or four or six every minute.

  24. When built upon a horizontal base of sufficient extent, it is a dome with a central neck, funnelled like the mouth of an urn.

  25. A round orifice is contrived at the summit; and, on this orifice, rises a funnelled mouthpiece built of pure cement.

  26. But let us examine the shapeless mass more closely and we shall perceive the number of chambers composing the habitation with the funnelled mouths, each quite distinct and each furnished with its gravel stopper set in the cement.

  27. A choice cement and careful work are necessary for the confection of its slender, funnelled shaft.

  28. Soon afterwards a two-funnelled ship and a four-funneller were made out, and the Kent was ordered out to the harbour mouth and orders given for all ships to raise steam for full speed.

  29. We gazed at whence they came, and again five or six stabs of fire pierced the mist, and we made out a four-funnelled cruiser of the 'Breslau' class.

  30. Heavy shells, learned later to be those from the Goeben in the Dardanelles Channel, shrieked occasionally out of the unknown, and sent up great geysers of water near a four-funnelled cruiser to the right.

  31. I rushed to inform the American sailing ship Captain of my discovery, and he confirmed my opinion that it was a four-funnelled warship.

  32. Then he funnelled his hands and shouted the lad's name.

  33. Tis pickin' his bones--" roared Matthews through funnelled palms; and both jumped back to the shelter of the hemlocks.

  34. For fully an hour they idled about in the darkness, watching the swift brass-funnelled pinnace which, so spick and span, and commanded by a smart lad fresh from Osborne, was making the journey regularly between ship and quay.


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